Thought I'd share my latest creation
06-25-2004, 02:52 PM
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Thought I'd share my latest creation
just thought I'd share, ...well, a few month ago, the owner came to me and told me he wanted to go CRAZY on his car 
Well, over the course of the next few month, working here and there...this is what I came up with.
90 percent of the install is fiberglass, painted to match the car...being one of the smallest cars around in terms of interior and luggage space, this proved to be quite a challenge.
1. the system starts at an alpine 7998 headunit, whcih handles also all the signal processing controls via its on board eq, crossover and time delay.
2. the front amp rack is a true floating amp rack design, meaning you cannot at almost all angles, see any supports that hold up the individual platforms the entire structure is held together by an intricate combo of industrial expoxy and screws. each platform was heavily primered, and then painted to match the outside of the car. on each platform, there is a crystal CAM 200.2 amp. one sending 400+ watts to the crystal CMP-10 subwoofer sunken down into the trunk floor below the amps; one sends 100+ watts or so to each door component set, and the final amp powers each interior sub/midbass with 100+ watts.
3. there are a total of 9 speakers in the car. the main ones being the crystal csc 643 3 way component set fiberglassed into the lower half ot he door. the stock porsche door is leather upto, and carpeted on the bottom, i spearated the halves, heaviy fiberglass the entire lower half, moled speaker baffles into them, and them mounted the speakres. the bottom half was also painted yellow to match the car and finally, the door was reassembled. two crystal 6.5" midbasses inhabit a custom molded center console sub enclosure that extends behind the seats and below the roll bar, the entire struture was molded in one piece and of course painted to match. a boxster emblem was placed on top of the enclosure
the entire system sounds pretty good, gets very loud and stays clean, and the midbass is phenonmenal
enjoy
Well, over the course of the next few month, working here and there...this is what I came up with. 90 percent of the install is fiberglass, painted to match the car...being one of the smallest cars around in terms of interior and luggage space, this proved to be quite a challenge.
1. the system starts at an alpine 7998 headunit, whcih handles also all the signal processing controls via its on board eq, crossover and time delay.
2. the front amp rack is a true floating amp rack design, meaning you cannot at almost all angles, see any supports that hold up the individual platforms
the entire structure is held together by an intricate combo of industrial expoxy and screws. each platform was heavily primered, and then painted to match the outside of the car. on each platform, there is a crystal CAM 200.2 amp. one sending 400+ watts to the crystal CMP-10 subwoofer sunken down into the trunk floor below the amps; one sends 100+ watts or so to each door component set, and the final amp powers each interior sub/midbass with 100+ watts. 3. there are a total of 9 speakers in the car. the main ones being the crystal csc 643 3 way component set fiberglassed into the lower half ot he door. the stock porsche door is leather upto, and carpeted on the bottom, i spearated the halves, heaviy fiberglass the entire lower half, moled speaker baffles into them, and them mounted the speakres. the bottom half was also painted yellow to match the car and finally, the door was reassembled. two crystal 6.5" midbasses inhabit a custom molded center console sub enclosure that extends behind the seats and below the roll bar, the entire struture was molded in one piece and of course painted to match. a boxster emblem was placed on top of the enclosure
the entire system sounds pretty good, gets very loud and stays clean, and the midbass is phenonmenal
enjoy
06-25-2004, 06:05 PM
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That's a pretty damn sweet install. I would have liked to see the storage area fiberglass and painted to make it pop out some. How much did that end up costing the guy it was done for?
Also, how do you keep the symmetry on the fiberglass? You can't exactly flip the mold... Do you have any books you would recommend on doing this kind of work? I've been interested in learning, but didn't know where to start.
Also, how do you keep the symmetry on the fiberglass? You can't exactly flip the mold... Do you have any books you would recommend on doing this kind of work? I've been interested in learning, but didn't know where to start.
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well, you dont need the sides to be exactly the same, human eyes arent hat specific...what I did was take the bottom of hte door, attached identical trim rings to it, and pulled fleece of it...so...the end result is pretty similar
as for cost, well, its a little above 5k
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as for cost, well, its a little above 5k
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06-26-2004, 03:02 AM
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DAMN!!! I started reading from the begining and got all excited thinking it was an 8. I've been looking at installing a system, but keep coming up with having to gut the whole damn thing and fabricate. I was thinking this was an 8 setup just that. Nice install though, SWEET fiberglass work. It might look pretty but let me see that thing at a light, haha. --Mark
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